People News: Harvard Medical School, Eli Lilly and Slack Inc.

Harvard Medical School named Lilly's William Chin, MD executive dean for research, a new position with responsibility for biomedical research. Dr. Chin, a Harvard-trained endocrinologist, was SVP discovery research and clinical investigation at Lilly.

Medical publisher Slack Inc. named Joan-Marie Stiglich SVP. She will be responsible for Slack News Group, the division comprised of Slack's specialty medicine and surgery and related science titles. Stiglich was previously VP publishing operations, and before that was director of the custom publishing group and editor in chief of the Ocular Surgery News Group.